Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 2 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 3 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 4 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 5 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 6 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 7 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 8 | Pamela had joined the youth club and found it enjoyable . |
| 9 | She closed the door ; she was going to close it completely , but she changed her mind and left it open a few inches . |
| 10 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 11 | Had I been an IRA man , I could have pulled out my little Luger and shot him dead — a thought so unnerving that the next day I wrote to his private secretary to suggest improved security . |
| 12 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 13 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 14 | Jim reached into her mouth and prised it open enough to pull the tongue forward . |
| 15 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 16 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 17 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 18 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 19 | They took the keys and the car and left me stranded . ’ |
| 20 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 21 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 22 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 23 | The Master dined there last term and told us all about it . |
| 24 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 25 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 26 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 27 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 28 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 29 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 30 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |